This
Month at LDI

News
and AnnouncementsFlaura Winston wins HSR Impact Award. Congratulations to LDI Senior
Fellow Flaura Winston, MD, PhD, who has been recognized by AcademyHealth
for the impact of her research. The Health Services Research Impact Award
identifies examples of outstanding research that have been successfully
translated into health policy, management, or clinical practice. Dr. Winston,
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, and colleagues at the Children's Hospital
of Philadelphia have conducted groundbreaking and life-saving research
on preventing injuries to children in car crashes. Her work continues
in CHOP's Center for Injury Research and Prevention (see link below).http://stokes.chop.edu/programs/injury/

Upcoming SeminarsResearch: This Friday, we welcome Anthony T. LoSasso, PhD, Associate
Professor of Health Policy & Administration at the University of Illinois
at Chicago, who will discuss the effect of Medicaid and uncompensated
care on private insurance coverage. Don't miss his talk, "The Health
Care Safety Net and Crowd-Out of Private Health Insurance," on Friday,
November 17, 2006, from 12:00-1:30 pm. RSVPMore
info

Please join
us as Peter Bearman, PhD, Professor of Sociology at Columbia, shares his
work on adolescent health behavior. He will discuss, "The Structure
of Adolescent Sexual Networks," on Friday, December 1, 2006, from
12:00-1:30 pm.RSVPMore
infoRecent
SeminarsHealth
Policy:
On October 13, Michael E. Porter, PhD, of the Harvard Business School,
discussed his work applying competitive market strategies to the health
care system. He urged that competition be based on results and value to
patients, rather than on costs.Slides from October 13 talk

And on October
9, Gabriel Leung, MD, MPH, of the University of Hong Kong, discussed the
relationship between aging, obesity, and mortality. Using data from the
Hong Kong Elderly Cohort, he found that the effect of body mass index
on mortality varied with baseline health status. In the healthiest group,
obese people had higher mortality but in the unhealthiest group they had
lower mortality compared with people of normal weight.Abstract from October 9
talk